systems in which reaction terms are coupled to diffusion and advection transports arise in awide range of chemical engineering applications, physics, biology and environmental. in these cases, thecomponents of the unknown can denote concentrations or population sizes which represent quantities andthey need to remain positive. classical finite difference schemes may produce numerical drawbacks s...

Background & Aims: Atherosclerosis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Adiponectin reducesthe risk of heart disease, and matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) is involved in the formation and development of atherosclerotic plaque. The aim of this study was the investigation of the effect of adiponectin on MMP-9 gene expression. It seems this hormone can reduce the risk of atherosclerosis ...

we present a model and propose an approach to compute an approximate solution of fully fuzzy linear system $(ffls)$ of equations in which all the components of the coefficient matrix are either nonnegative or nonpositive. first, in discussing an $ffls$ with a nonnegative coefficient matrix, we consider an equivalent $ffls$ by using an appropriate permutation to simplify fuzzy multiplications. t...

It has been proposed that proteases secreted by cancer cells facilitate metastasis by degrading extracellular matrix. Estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer cells secrete a M, 52,000 pro-cath-D under estrogen stimulation, whereas this protease is produced constitutively by estrogen receptor-negative cancer cells. We report on the degradation in vitro of extracellular matrix by purified M, 52,...

A matrix R is said to be g-row substochastic if Re ≤ e. For X, Y ∈ Mn,m, it is said that X is sglt-majorized by Y , X ≺sglt Y , if there exists an n-by-n lower triangular g-row substochastic matrix R such that X = RY . This paper characterizes all (strong) linear preservers and strong linear preservers of ≺sglt on Rn and Mn,m, respectively.

conclusions it was the first report on the blactx-m-15 gene emergence in clinical enterobacter spp. in iran. the current study demonstrated the predominant presence of the gene encoding ctx-m-15 among esbl producing enterobacter spp. commonly with a large plasmid, in the setting. background enterobacter spp. is increasingly recognized as an important nosocomial pathogen and implicated in many e...

Background & Aims: One of the most common causes of bacterial resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics is beta-lactamase producing. The aim of this study was to compare the antibiotic resistance of urinary Escherichia coli (E. coli) isolates producing CTX-M and TEM type beta-lactamases, and to determine the strains with co-resistance to multiple antibiotics in Mashhad, Iran. Methods: E. coli b...

Recent characterizations of various types of diierentiable generalized monotone maps by Karamardian{ Schaible{Crouzeix and their strengthened versions by Crouzeix{Ferland are extended to the nonsmooth case. For nondiierentiable locally Lipschitz maps necessary and/or suucient conditions for quasimono-tonicity, pseudomonotonicity and strict/ strong pseudomonotonicity are derived. To accomplish t...

Throughout the paper, all rings are associative rings with identity 1. The set of all idempotents of a ring R is denoted by E(R). Also, for a subset X ⊆ R, we denote the right [resp., left] annihilator of X by r(X) [resp., (X)]. We call a ring R a left p.p.-ring [3], in brevity, an l.p.p.-ring, if every principal left ideal of R, regarded as a left R-module, is projective. Dually, we may define...

In this brief note, we suggest that the accumulating neutrino data [1–3], including the recent results from KamLAND [4] and K2K [5], point to a relatively simple neutrino mass matrix. The data can be explained by oscillations between three active neutrinos with the atmospheric neutrino and K2K data explained by oscillation between the muon and the tauon neutrinos, and the solar neutrino and Kam...